Shahin Gorgani

Simply

the area of a house which number of wives of the Man and the children live Many kings had couple of wives. Harem was the place for all the wives to live.

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of all, Travelers could not go inside of the Harem They used some of their imagination Europeans used their thoughts of eastern women as a subordinate they used this vision to write about women in Harems and eastern countries. Its all their fantasy for example: Women is just object for mens desire Travelers were self- contradictor

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European writing about Harems was not accurate They could not see the reality The reality of women in the Harem besides being an object Political decisions and most of the time using their power

it is not surprising, that grossness, in ideas and language, respecting the intercourse of the sexes, is a uniform concomitant of the degraded state of the women inquiry discovers, that grossness in this respect is a regular ingredient in the manners of a rude age; and that society, as it refines, deposits this, among its other impurities.

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relations on Harem The decisions made in Harem The Mughal Empire was based on Harem

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talented women who gained the political importance Good example is the leader ship of Nur-e-Jahan

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segregation Public-private domain In Homayun-Ahval the Harem changed to become like a family.

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this wrong image of eastern society is still in the western peoples mind? Why western women illustrate themselves better than eastern women?

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can you imagine yourself to be part of a Harem, being one of the wives or the man? How do you think the world would have changed if we had Harem in the U.S and American Empire with king and many wives?

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with the perspective of the European in 19 century: Their Superiority What ever they see, they compare it to themselves.

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humans have reason and sensibility The fact of diversity among humans The avoiding of exoticism leads to racism Being exotic is good (European vs Persian) The best candidates for the role of exotic ideal are the peoples and cultures that are most remote from us and least known to us.

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European wants to show people like Iranians are behind. The power of controlling them and illustrate the exotic vision of them to the world.

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you think that every single of us is the most exotic creation? Or we are exotic enough to not blame others Because we think others are exotic, and we are normal, but at the same time Many others think that we are not exotic and not normal